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This place: Money in, nothing out. If this is the crux of the issue for you, I assume you don't frequent the following places: - bars - arcades - any entert
by vunderba 3y ago
This place: Money in, nothing out.
If this is the crux of the issue for you, I assume you don't frequent the following places:
- bars
- arcades
- any entertainment venue (concerts, etc)
The impression she seemed to be making was that many of their patrons weren't there for physical gratification but rather a sort of emotional catharsis. Yours is a highly judgmental and uncharitable take.
- jjulius 3y ago>... I assume you don't frequent the following places I also assume they've never really been out much around 2AM.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoShe's sneering at a bunch of schlubs and you're calling me the uncharitable one? You can frame this kind of stuff as therapy if you want, as something involving a pathetic kind of dignity, even as valuable work, but her essay does none of that. The only people with whom she evinces any solidarity are the convenience-store clerks and the taxi drivers. She basically says that this is not a good thing to be doing, which paradoxically means that her essay is in more logical agreement with my own condemnation of it than it is with your post. If there is to be an end to judgment and condemnation it has to begin with the author. She and I agree that exploitation is happening; we only disagree about whether it is good (or, "radical", she says). The catharsis you speak of, if real, is not something she cares about, because the people who experience it are not people she values.
- jjulius 3y ago>She's sneering at a bunch of schlubs... Same question[1]. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028780